No books, just yet: my anniversary presents just showed up.
Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire, and Jonathan Rauch’s Government’s End.
I wonder if Gates of Fire has to be treated like a murder mystery, and can therefore only be read in the morning, so that I’d only miss out on fiddle-faddle like work and housekeeping as opposed to critical things like sleep. I mean, you know how that one goes: you start the book at 9:00 p.m., and promise yourself that you’ll put it down before midnight, and before the two-thirds point, so you can realistically put it down and get to bed. No, really. And then the false resolution comes too early, you’re in too deep, and all you can do it hope that you’ll finish it before the sky outside starts to lighten, in that depressing way it does sometimes: “yoo-hoo: it’s me. Dawn!”
Then you say, “that’s it!” And you promise never to let any fiction into the house ever again, just to be safe. But now here it is, until someone passes some sensible fiction-control.
Yum!
Oh, wait: in mid-July I enter the “horse latitudes,” until Christmas. So you could still buy me books for my birthday. But maybe not fiction, unless . . . um. Well.
After those and the Pressfield book, though, I’m giving it up for good. I’m going to take up something wholesome, like smack.
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Hey! Some things have been in the works for a week. Seems Amazon doesn’t notify people that wishes have been fulfilled. You might want to check these off, lest you get duplicates. Cover your eyes when you do because you don’t want to spoil any surprise.
“Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation (Wheaton Literary Series)”
Madeleine L’Engle; Hardcover
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“The Women Who Lived for Danger : Behind Enemy Lines During WWII”
Marcus Binney; Paperback
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“Popper Selections”
Sir Karl Raimund Popper; Paperback
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